Walton v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from, the District Court of Wood. Tried below before Hon. F. J. McCord. This conviction was for burglary with intent to rape, and the penalty-assessed by the verdict was a term of eight years in the penitentiary. The rulings of the court on this appeal do not require a statement of the proof adduced on the trial.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction for-burglary with intent to commit rape. The most important facts upon which the verdict and judgment rest are that the prosecutrix was a young white girl, about fifteen years of age, and the defendant a negro man who worked on the farm of her father, but slept at his brother’s house some distance away; that, as stated by the prosecutrix in her testimony, “ Henry Walton came into my room about half past 10 o’clock at night. I was. sleeping in the north room of my father’s house with my little sister, who-is about eight years old, and…
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